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The street of dreams is paying attention to video game tech these days, and not just in terms of potential investments.
Wall Street & Technology reports that the same graphics processors (GPUs) employed in modern game consoles are powering specialized financial displays.
Frank Tan, a Deutsche Bank options trader, told WS&T:

Withthe advancement of computer gaming and graphics technology likePlayStation and Xbox, these graphics cards are a lot more capable [thanever]. The idea is to use the GPUs for financial calculations ratherthan playing games and generating graphics...

First,there is the sheer number of messages and data coming in... Every timethe underlying price changes, or if there is a shift in the optionsquotes, the options prices... have to be recomputed. The GPU has thecapability to solve the second computational issue. Before GPUtechnology came out, in order to solve this problem in real time, youwould have to buy supercomputers.